[Ansteorra] Royal Huntsman - Special Tourney Rules***

[Patrick R]

Sounds a little like the fire and manouver course for infantry at Ft Benning. Better have some really good marshals for that event but it would be fun to run. Wish we had the room for it.

--- On Tue, 2/14/12, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:


From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Royal Huntsman - Special Tourney Rules***
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 4:31 PM


Thank you for the description of what sounds like an interesting archery shoot.

I have multiple stories of similar shoots being done elsewhere, but I've never heard of one like this being done in Ansteorra. These shoots along a trail, with 3D animal figures or other targets, do take up a lot of room and you have to make sure that the areas behind the targets are clear of unintended targets, such as other people, which complicates setting up such a shoot.  I would love to participate in such a competition, though.

For some more interesting ideas on archery shoots:
arch-shoots-msg   (42K)  5/25/97  Different types of archery shoots.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ARCHERY/arch-shoots-msg.html

P-Arch-Target-art (14K) 11/13/08  "A Period Archery Target for the SCA"
                                     by Sir Jon Fitz-Rauf OL, OP.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ARCHERY/P-Arch-Target-art.html

Stefan

On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Bree Flowers wrote:

>> It certainly beats seeing standardized distances and
>> international circle targets being used (aka royal rounds).
>> 
>> Haraldr Bassi
> 
> 
> I once lived somewhere that did shoots at 3D targets in the woods. It
> was set up a bit like a golf course where you walked along a path and
> stopped to shoot at each thing, and we did the course in small groups.
> One archer at a time would step up to the beginning of the line, you
> could move forward along the line all the way to the end, but never
> backward, so you had to guess whether it was a good time to shoot, or
> if you took another step or two the shot would get better. You'd only
> get one shot at each target. Certainly added to the realism, but not
> much room for spectators, unless they too were wiling to come along
> for a walk in the woods. Also not too kind to arrows, you'd be
> surprised how hard it is to see a tree 3 yards in front of you when
> you're sighting at a deer 20 yards away. We set up little "arrow
> graveyards" so future archers would get an idea how bad a particular
> target was. Most fun I ever had at a shoot.
> 
> We ever do shoots like that in these parts?
> 
> ~Eve

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